| commit | 00166eb2dcc5349ba7b28dfdb8ad2ebbf57abe33 | [log] [tgz] |
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| author | Dominik Schürmann <dominik@dominikschuermann.de> | Wed Aug 10 19:00:49 2016 +0000 |
| committer | Dominik Schürmann <dominik@dominikschuermann.de> | Wed Aug 10 19:00:49 2016 +0000 |
| tree | 7c77b76875e40a5194c1aefdee99704159d869a2 | |
| parent | b1f29d5ada5e01d43b4780283d3569e4ae6f4e11 [diff] | |
| parent | b192727330bb28913e44affd646b3bfa7bbc4187 [diff] |
Merge branch 'device-owner' into 'master' Disallow delete of apps that are device owner Fixes #4 See merge request !6
When F-Droid is installed as a normal Android app, installing, updating, and removing apps can only be done by requesting the Android operating system to do this. F-Droid cannot execute this operations on itself. Thus, the operating system shows a screen on every install/update to get confirmation from the user that he/she really wants to install this app. This is a security feature of Android to prevent the installation of malware without user intervention.
The downside for F-Droid is that this prevents us from updating apps in the background, which is an essential feature of a modern package manager.
Here comes the F-Droid Privileged Extension into play. To have the same privileges as other pre-installed package managers, such as Google Play, i.e., installing/updating apps in the background, F-Droid needs so called "privileged permissions". To get these we provide an extension to F-Droid which must be either shipped with your Android distribution/rom or installed into the system.
More information be found in the wiki page.
./gradlew assembleRelease
You can download the extension from our repo.